The Lobby Strikes Back

Behold the insidious reach
of the Israel lobby. Andrew Sullivan takes a holiday and he invites me of all
people to join Dave Weigel as a guest bloggers. I’ll be cross-posting all this
week here at the Daily Dish and at my own site, FrumForum.com.

"Violence is not
the solution," al-Naqib wrote in his breakthrough 1998 treatise Practicing
Semiviolence. "It is only approximately 19/20ths of the solution. We
should not work toward the total annihilation of all who oppose usjust some of
them. And perhaps it is best we practice occasional mercy for the innocent, such
as the young, who can easily recuperate."

In a 2003 interview with
British newspaper The Guardian, al-Naqib said that the "decadent
immorality of Western civilization must be almost, but not quite, wiped off the
face of the earth."